A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behind
Even before the doomed mission to Hadleyâs Hope on LV-426, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military tradition, she looked up to the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earthâfirst into a street gang, then prison. The Colonial Marines proved to be Vasquezâs way outâa way that forced her to give up her twin children. Raised by Jenetteâs sister, those children, Leticia and Ramon, had to discover their own ways to survive. Leticia by following her motherâs path into the military, Ramon into the corporate hierarchy of Weyland-Yutani. Their paths would converge on an unnamed planet which some see as a potential utopia, while others would use it for highly secretive research. Regardless of whatever humans might have planned for it, however, Xenomorphs will turn it into a living hell.
V. Castro is a Mexican American writer from San Antonio, Texas, now residing in the UK. As a full-time mother she dedicates her time to her family and writing Latinx narratives in horror and science fiction. She has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her most recent releases include The Queen of the Cicadas and Mestiza Blood from Flame Tree Press, Goddess of Filth from Creature Publishing, and Hairspray and Switchblades from Unnerving.